Brief Notices of a Small Number of the Shakespeare Rarities that are Preserved in the Rustic Wigwam at Hollingbury Copse, Near Brighton ...Harrison & Sons, 1885 - 24 pages |
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Brief Notices of a Small Number of the Shakespeare Rarities That Are ... J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 19 - Vincentio Saviolo his Practise. In two Bookes. The first intreating of the use of the Rapier and Dagger. The second of Honor and honorable Quarrels.
Page 13 - The first part of the true and honourable History of the Life of Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham," came out, on the titlepage of which the name of William Shakespeare appeared at length.
Page 18 - In the fyrste parte is showne the unsufferable abuse of a lewde Magistrate, the vertuous behaviours of a chaste ladye, the uncontrowled leawdenes of a favoured curtisan, and the undeserved estimation of a pernicious parasyte. In the second parte is discoursed the perfect magnanimitye of a noble Kinge, in checking vice and favouringe vertue, wherein is showne the ruyne and overthrowe...
Page 13 - The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole contention betweene the two Houses Lancaster and Yorke, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants.
Page 7 - ... Droeshout portrait of 1623, and is the only likeness of Shakespeare in existence which has come down to us in an original unaltered state. " No other copy of the engraving in this reliable state has yet been discovered, the only ones in all other libraries being those taken from a retouched plate. The latter is one of the only three impressions known of the title-page of the edition of 1632 before the spelling of the word coppies was altered, a circumstance which, although apparently trivial,...
Page 11 - Tamia, Wits Treasury, being the second part of Wits Common Wealth, by Francis Meres, Maister of Artes of both Universities. At London, Printed by P. Short for Cuthbert Burbie, and are to be sold at his shop at the Royall Exchange, 1598.
Page 15 - Imprinted at London, by Simon Stafford, for Cuthbert Burby, and are to be sold at his Shop, neere the Royall Exchange. 1599" This is reprinted in Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays.
Page 12 - Select observations on English Bodies, or Cures both Empericall and Historicall performed upon very eminent persons in desperate Diseases.
Page 13 - A pleasant conceited Comedie called Loves labors lost. As it was presented before her Highnes this last Christmas. Newly corrected and augmented By W. Shakespeare.
Page 11 - Warwickshire antiquary of the last century, — " this Richard said he in his youth had been a playfellow with Edward Clopton, senior, eldest son of Sir John Clopton, knight, and had been often with him in the Great House near the Chapel in Stratford call'd New Place ; that, to the best of his remembrance, there was a brick wall next the street, with a kind of porch at that end of it next the Chapel, when they cross'da small kind of green court before they enter'd the house, which was bearing to...